After 400 Years Of Oppression Is Something Finally Going To Change?

[Yallow]

slavery = no reparations

40 acres and a mule = no mule, no 40 acres

lynching = no prosecutions

terrorizing = no prosecutions

fewer/zero opportunities for poc and their kids

constant police harassment

unequal incarceration

institutionalized racism

criminal unjustice

The list of reasons someone of color might go postal is longer than a trip to Orion

And we can't even talk about it

We gonna talk about it now?

[Yallow]

1. And We Have Trump Saying Protesters Should Be Beaten Up

That's his answer.

Beyond sickening.

[Yallow]

2. Obviously No One Here Wants To Talk About It

THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT, THAT'S MY POINT......

[Yallow]

3. Silence

.........

And you wonder why "Houston we have a problem"......

[FreakinDJ]

4. The silence is sicking - oh I meant deafening

I wrote a post Friday how the SCOTUS should over turn the Tennessee vs: Gardner decision and was attacked for it.

The question still remains - just how many innocent black men's deaths are an acceptable amount of "Collateral Damage" for the security of a few

[gwheezie]

5. I talked about this all last week

With friends and coworkers. Actually decades ago. I'm learning.
A couple of points. I don't see why we can't figure out some kind of reparations look at all the money we've spent avoiding it. I also think it's up to white people to fix this. Poc especially black folks have risked enough dealing with white power.

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6. I Can't Imagine What A POC Feels When They See The Blue Light In Their Mirror

And until today, I never had that thought.

Even my institutionally closed mind can learn......

[MH1]

7. Every time a company hires an H1B for a programming job

That's a job opportunity lost for a qualified African American. A job opportunity for a GOOD job, not a shit job.

I am white but have lived this, advocating for hiring qualified AAs and training as needed for specifics, instead we get someone imported on a visa, who oh by the way, (a significant part of the time, not always) lied on his resume about having the so-called "required experience", and went to a shit programming "academy" that teaches zero fundamentals.

Every job that goes the other way, that creates an opportunity for a African American, gives a deserving AA family a chance for economic success that may otherwise be blocked for them. This is a positive for everyone, and oh by the way, in the office we get a person who is better educated and has better communication skills.

This is much more an uphill than it should be.

I realize this doesn't address the fundamental racism in the justice system, but geez, can't we at least try to create the success opportunities for AAs so that at least you all have a chance? There are a lot of good hard working people who have it ten times as hard as any white person, and it's total bullshit for it to be that way.

(and why aren't we even talking to white Americans for these jobs? because they want more money than the company wants to pay, and yes they can go get that at other companies who will pay it, once they have a strong resume. That' why it's an opportunity ladder that we need to get AA's on, instead of continuing to outsource those jobs to people who really aren't one bit more qualified.)

[elleng]

8. No.

https://www.quora.com/What-dictators-voluntarily-relinquished-power